Wednesday's letters: Education budget

Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 5:46 p.m.

To the editor: I was recently informed that our N.C. House is voting on a budget that will severely cut the education budget and result in the removal of many teacher assistants’ positions. As a current student of the N.C. school system and the daughter of an elementary school teacher, I was terribly disturbed that this budget plan had already passed our state Senate.

I have always been told that knowledge holds more power than any other force in the universe. If education is so important and children really are the future, why is it necessary to constantly cut their funding to the point where their dollar is being stretched more than their imagination?

Assistants, teachers and students deserve our state’s support. Our state representatives are just that: ours. Let your representatives know that education budget cuts are not acceptable. Tell them that assistants are vital assets to elementary education. Inform them that a lack of support for our educators will result in a lack of support for them.

Take this time to let the children know that we care, and we will not be silent.

Lindsay McNair Patton

Fletcher

Full disclosure

To the editor: Well, it’s taken multiple scandals and blatant evidence of total disregard for rule of law for the “sheeple” of this country to finally show some momentary concern over what many of us have been following for the past five years! And that is that the radical left in the personage of the O’Drama administration has been stealthily dismantling “America” as we knew it to perpetuate its power ad infinitum and create its long-awaited statist dystopia where the government has supreme power over our lives.

But the real culpability to this reality has been the electorate who chose not only to elect but re-elect this corrupt “crew without a clue” to continue to run this nation into the ground.

I only hope that the folks will put down their remotes long enough from watching “reality TV” programs in order to see the genuine reality that we are losing our traditional freedoms and liberties under this corrupt administration’s stealth agenda every day!

Given the fact that general public interest is transient at best, we can only hope and pray that justice will be served and full disclosure will be realized!

<p>To the editor: I was recently informed that our N.C. House is voting on a budget that will severely cut the education budget and result in the removal of many teacher assistants’ positions. As a current student of the N.C. school system and the daughter of an elementary school teacher, I was terribly disturbed that this budget plan had already passed our state Senate.</p><p>I have always been told that knowledge holds more power than any other force in the universe. If education is so important and children really are the future, why is it necessary to constantly cut their funding to the point where their dollar is being stretched more than their imagination?</p><p>Assistants, teachers and students deserve our state’s support. Our state representatives are just that: ours. Let your representatives know that education budget cuts are not acceptable. Tell them that assistants are vital assets to elementary education. Inform them that a lack of support for our educators will result in a lack of support for them.</p><p>Take this time to let the children know that we care, and we will not be silent.</p><p><em>Lindsay McNair Patton</em></p><p><em>Fletcher</em></p><h3>Full disclosure</h3>
<p>To the editor: Well, it’s taken multiple scandals and blatant evidence of total disregard for rule of law for the sheeple of this country to finally show some momentary concern over what many of us have been following for the past five years! And that is that the radical left in the personage of the O’Drama administration has been stealthily dismantling America as we knew it to perpetuate its power ad infinitum and create its long-awaited statist dystopia where the government has supreme power over our lives.</p><p>But the real culpability to this reality has been the electorate who chose not only to elect but re-elect this corrupt crew without a clue to continue to run this nation into the ground.</p><p>I only hope that the folks will put down their remotes long enough from watching reality TV programs in order to see the genuine reality that we are losing our traditional freedoms and liberties under this corrupt administration’s stealth agenda every day!</p><p>Given the fact that general public interest is transient at best, we can only hope and pray that justice will be served and full disclosure will be realized!</p><p><em>Bob Jopson</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p>